Clemente Marconi, James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; Director, IFA Excavations at Selinunte, IFA-NYU

10:00am Western Sicily before the Greeks: Mycenaeans and Others along the Mediterranean SeaboardMassimo Cultraro, CNR Catania

10:45am Monte Iato: A Native Settlement in Western SicilyChristoph Reusser, University of Zurich

11:30am Tyranny in SelinusNino Luraghi, Princeton University

12:15pm The Cult of Demeter at Selinunte: A ReassessmentCaterina Greco, Superintendent of Cultural Heritage of Agrigento

1:00pm LUNCH BREAK

2:00pm The Getty HexametersChristopher Faraone, University of Chicago

2:45pm Greeks and Non-Greeks in Selinunte between the Archaic and Hellenistic Periods: A RevisionClemente Marconi, IFA-NYU

3:30pm Building Local Responses: Ritual Architectures in Western Sicily (8th-5th Centuries B.C.E.)Meritxell Ferrer Martin, Stanford University

This
conference is co-sponsored by the NYU Institute of Fine Arts and is
being presented in conjunction with the IFA's annual report on the IFA-NYU excavations on the Akropolis of Selinunte. That annual lecture, by Clemente Marconi, will take place on November 7 at 6:00pm at the IFA, 1 East 78th Street.